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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
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| New York TimesManohla DargisIn “Ex Libris,” democracy is alive and in the hands of a forceful advocate and brilliant filmmaker, which helps make this one of the greatest movies of Mr. Wiseman’s extraordinary career and one of his most thrilling. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungNever talking down to his audience, he rather pulls them up to an intellectual level where other filmmakers fear to go. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfA film about the importance of cultural history and truth (two things deeply under siege these days), Wiseman’s epic Ex Libris might make you cry with happiness; it’s the good fight being fought. Movies aren’t usually a public benefit, much less an essential one. Here’s the exception. |
| Sight and SoundNeil YoungThe huge canvas becomes an inadvertent self-portrait of this most self-effacing of auteurs, whom one senses entirely shares the NYPL's noble aims and belief in the power of education, community and hard work. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrEx Libris has no narration and it lasts three hours and 17 minutes, which sounds like torture (or, alternately, 3½ episodes of “Game of Thrones”). Somewhat surprisingly, the movie rushes by at the speed of life. |
| Seattle WeeklyRobert HortonLike an old card catalog organized according to the Dewey Decimal System: calm, useful, elegant. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyBooks are ... present throughout, including lots of tasty archiving porn in the Picture Collection and especially the Berg Collection. Like libraries themselves, Ex Libris has something for everyone. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Andrew WrightEven for non-bibliophiles, [Frederick] Wiseman's latest is an absorbing, ultimately optimistic work. Long may he continue to poke around. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenFrederick Wiseman is a portraitist of ideals, of the insidious inspirations and nightmares that enable and undermine them, and, implicitly, of the political waves that have yet to balance this duality of first-world life. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderFrederick Wiseman's 43rd film is as complex and fascinating as his first, released five decades ago. |